Print detail event | Artist's Reception: Water is Life

WATER IS LIFE: A JURIED EXHIBIT OF FIBER, PHOTOGRAPHS, MONOTYPE, & MIXED MEDIA

Participating Artists: Shonto Begay, Ed Dunn, Frederica Hall, Ed Kabotie, Jill Sans, Brenda Smith, Mark Vranesh, Ken Walters, Rachel Wilson

Our Arizona water supply is facing increasing challenges. Challenges of consequence to our present and future economy, environment, and personal well-being. There are tens of thousands of water claims clogging our legal system. How can Arizona achieve effective water management that balances the needs of urban and tribal communities, industry and mining, farmers and ranches…and you? Afterall, Water is Life.

Dates & Times

Dates: 2019/07/01 - 2019/09/10

Additional time info:

Gallery is open Tues-Friday, 9-12, 1-5 and Sunday 8-12:30

First Friday ArtWalk & Artists’ Reception – July 5, 6-8:30 pm

Focus: In the Balance: The Need for Safe, Clean Water

Music: Mystic Harvest – 6 pm

Speaker: Joe Costion of Protect our Water Arizona- “Fracking Risks to Arizona Water” – 7 pm

Refreshments served

First Friday ArtWalk – August 2, 6-8:30 pm

Focus: Water in Native American Cultural Traditions

Music: Ed Kabotie, Artist in Residence, Museum of Northern Arizona – 6 pm

Refreshments served; free parking behind the church

First Friday ArtWalk – September 6, 6-8:30 pm

Focus: Status of Northern AZ Water Supply - The Present/The Future

Speaker: Erin Young, City of Flagstaff, Water Services Division – 7 pm

Music: Bill Vernieu – 6 pm

Refreshments served

Open Doors: Art in Action Gallery wishes to thank the artists who submitted their visual

interpretations of the theme, Water is Life, and guest jurors Alan Petersen, Priest Marianna Gronek, &

Carol Jean Kennedy-Bedard.

This Open Doors: Art in Action exhibit is made possible thru donations received in memory of Sarah Westphal.(1950-2019)